1. “Clinton Trade Deals ‘Are Disastrous’”
Trump’s campaign argues the North American Free
Trade Agreement (NAFTA) — which was enacted by President Bill Clinton — and the
Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), which is currently awaiting a vote in Congress
and had support from Hillary Clinton, cause mass job losses in the United
States — especially in the manufacturing industry.
2. “Clinton Lied About Her Landing In Bosnia”
In 2008, First Lady Hillary Clinton recalled a 1996
trip as First Lady to Bosnia. She was supposed to meet with families of U.S.
soldier, but claimed upon landing she was under sniper fire and had to run with
her head down instead of attending a greeting ceremony. An Associated Press
report from 1996 detailing the eve of her arrival, however, made no mention of
this incident. In fact, a CBS News video later revealed she was under no
visible duress, greeted instead on the tarmac by a child who offered her a copy
of a poem.
3. “Clinton Performed Favors for Donors As
Secretary Of State”
Trump argues Clinton has used the Clinton
Foundation as a way to fundraise where donors can gain access to political
favors. He cites Raj Fernando who donated between $1 million and $5 million and
was appointed as International Security Advisor to the State Department by
Cheryl Mills, Clinton’s chief of staff.
He also details favors given to foreign leaders and
Clinton Foundation donors such as the Sultan of Oman, Indian politician Amar
Singh, and Russian’s Uranium One.
4. “The Clintons Made Millions From Speeches To
Special Interests”
Trump hit Clinton over her big money speeches to
Wall Street — something her Democratic challenger Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
also would use to criticize her during the 2016 Democratic primary,
specifically for not releasing the transcripts of the secret speeches.
The Clintons made $153 million since 2011 giving
speeches to special interests such as foreign governments, CEOs and lobbyists.
5. “Clinton Supported Her Husband’s ‘Disastrous’
NAFTA Policy”
As First Lady and again in 2003, Clinton praised
NAFTA in her book; however, the Economic Policy Institute blames NAFTA for a
loss of 700,000 jobs as of 2010.
6. “Clinton Supported China’s Entrance Into The
WTO”
Trump’s campaign cites a television appearance on
CNN in 2000 where Clinton says normalizing trade relations would allow U.S.
companies to compete with China.
“I think it is in the interests of America and
American workers that we provide the option for China to go into the WTO,”
Clinton stated. “Right now, we are trading with China. We have a huge trade
deficit with China. The agreement that has been negotiated between our two
countries would open their markets to us in a way that they are not yet open,
and in fact, for many large manufactured products, like automobiles, we would
have the first chance to really get in and compete in that marketplace.”
7. “Since Hillary-Backed Trade Agreements Adoped
Nearly 1/3 Of Americas Manufacturing Jobs Have Disappeared”
Trump argues that because of China’s entrance into
the WTO in 2001, by 2013 the trade deficit with China skyrocketed and 3.2
million U.S. jobs were lost.
8. “The Trade Deficit With China Soared Under
Clinton As Secretary Of State”
Trump says America’s trade deficit with China
increased 40 percent while Clinton was Secretary of State.
9. “China Stole Hundreds Of Billions Of Dollars In
Intellectual Property During Clinton Tenure At State”
Trump’s campaign points to a 2013 report by the
Independent Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property, which
revealed that the U.S. lost $300 billion annually from American intellectual
property (IP) rights having been stolen.
10. “Clinton Gave China Millions Of Jobs And Grew
Rich In Return”
According to the Economic Policy Institute, after
the U.S. normalized trade relations with China — as Clinton supported — 3.2
million U.S. jobs were displaced. Trump also points to a Washington Post
article detailing how Bill Clinton received $56.3 million from speeches
delivered in foreign countries including China.
11. “The Clintons Profited From Speeches To Chinese
Interests While She Was Negotiating With China”
Trump cited Breitbart News editor Peter
Schweitzer’s book Clinton Cash during his speech, reading, “Here is a quote
from the book, ‘at the center of U.S. Policy toward China was Hillary Clinton.
At this critical time for U.S.- China relations, Bill Clinton gave a number of
speeches that were underwritten by the Chinese government and its supporters.
These funds were paid to the Clintons’ bank account directly, while Hillary was
negotiating with China on behalf of the United States.’”
12. “Clinton Supported TPP Which Will Destroy Jobs”
Bloomberg reports that during her time as Secretary
of State, Clinton helped draft the TPP trade deal and CNN notes that she
delivered at least 45 public speeches supporting the deal. The Economic Policy
Institute believes the TPP — which is a trade pact involving 11 nations — will
eliminate more than 2 million jobs in the United States.
13. “Clinton Deleted The TPP Record From Her Book
And 30,000 Emails”
According to the Trump campaign, in Clinton’s
memoir Hard Choices, she wrote favorably in support of the TPP and about her
hard work negotiating the deal during her time as Secretary of State, but
according to The International Business Times, a recent paperback edition of
Hard Choices omitted her earlier TPP reference.
Adding to the action of deleting information, Trump
also cites Clinton’s private, personal email server where she conducted her
business as Secretary of State and how she deleted, wiping the server clean, of
her emails.
14. “Clinton Will Adopt TPP”
“This is the latest Clinton cover-up and it doesn’t
change anything. If she is elected president, she will adopt the Trans- Pacific
Partnership and we will lose millions of jobs and our economic independence for
good,” Trump challenged in his speech.
15. “Clinton Will Betray Workers On Trade”
Trump cites Clinton’s flip flop on the TPP, the
Korea Deal and the Columbia Deal to reveal her inconsistency on international
trade.
16. “Clinton’s Foreign Policy Has Cost Americans
Thousands Of Lives, Trillions Of Dollars, and Unleashed ISIS Across The World”
On this assertion, Trump points to Clinton’s
original vote to support the war in Iraq, but then subsequent support of
President Obama’s plan to withdraw forces — citing a Reuters report that
Operation Iraqi Freedom cost trillions in taxpayer dollars. Trump also
questions Clinton’s decision on how to handle ISIS and her intervention into
Libya.
17. “Among Clinton’s Victims Was Ambassador Chris
Stevens”
Trump blasted Clinton over the 2012 terrorist
attack in Benghazi, Libya where four Americans, including Ambassador Chris
Stevens, were murdered after the State Department — under Clinton’s watch —
denied numerous requests for increased security.
18. “Clinton Was At Home Sleeping While Attacks In
Benghazi Continued”
“He was left helpless to die as Hillary Clinton
soundly slept in her bed. That’s right. When the phone rang, as per the
commercial, at three o’clock in the morning, Hillary Clinton was sleeping,”
Trump stated during his speech, pointing to a report from FactCheck.org that
revealed Clinton said she decided to leave the State Department and work from
home the night of the Benghazi attack.
19. “Ambassador Stevens And His Staff In Libya Made
Hundreds Of Requests For Increased Security And Were Denied”
The State Department denied numbers of requests for
additional security in Benghazi during the months leading up to the attack.
20. “Clinton Lied About A Video Causing The Deaths
Of Americans In Benghazi”
Trump cites Clintons remarks on September 12, 2012
over the deaths in Benghazi, where she blamed the attack on a YouTube video.
However, the night of the attack, Clinton emailed her daughter Chelsea Clinton
and said the attack came from an “Al Qaeda-Like group,” according to NBC News.
Additionally, according to a State Department
release, Clinton reportedly told the Egyptian Prime Minister that the attack in
Benghazi “had nothing to do with the film” but rather “was a planned attack —
not a protest.”
21. “In Four Years Clinton Managed To Single
Handedly Destabilize The Middle East And Hand Over Libya To ISIS”
Trump criticized Clinton for intervening in Libya
without resolving how the country would be governed after Gaddafi was removed,
and points to ISIS increasing its presence in Libya following the intervention.
22. “Iran Is Now The Dominant Islamic Power In The
Middle East And Is On The Road To A Nuclear Weapon, Thanks To Clinton”
Trump expresses criticism over Clinton’s support of
the Iran deal, where the U.S. is giving billions to Iran and allowing sanctions
relief where its economy could revitalize.
23. “Hillary Has Supported Regime Change In Syria,
Leading To One Of The Bloodiest Civil Wars And Giving ISIS A Launching Pad To
The West”
Trump argues that Clinton’s support of a regime
change in Syria resulted in ISIS obtaining territory gains.
24. “Clinton Helped Force Out A Friendly Regime In
Egypt”
Trump argued, “She helped force out a friendly
regime in Egypt and replace it with the radical Muslim Brotherhood. The
Egyptian military has retaken control, but Clinton has opened the Pandora’s box
of radical Islam.”
25. “Clinton’s Announced-Timetable for Withdrawal
from Iraq Allowed ISIS to Rush In and Fill The Void”
The Trump campaign lists several news headlines
where the Obama administration stated their plan for withdrawal, providing
dates and as a result, “American and Iraqi analysts said the Qaeda franchise is
shifting its tactics and strategies – like attacking Iraqi security forces in
small squads – to exploit gaps left by the departing American troops and to try
to reignite sectarian violence in the country,” according to The New York Times
in 2011.
26. “Clinton Learned Nothing From Iraq”
Trump argues the lessons from Iraq were ignored by
Clinton, who, once she became Secretary of State, pushed the intervention into
Libya, citing French Ambassador Gerard Araud who said, “It was the same mistake
you made in Iraq” in reference to Libya.
27. “Clinton Refuses To Acknowledge The Threat
Posed By Radical Islam”
Trump took a swipe at Clinton, as he has Obama, for
not identifying terrorism as “radical Islam.”
28. “Clinton Supports A 550% Increase In Syrian
Refugees”
Trump points to an appearance on CBS’s Face the
Nation, where Clinton said she thinks Obama’s plan to allow 10,000 Syrian
refugees into the U.S. wasn’t enough. “Look, we’re facing the worst refugee
crisis since the end of World War II, and I think the United States has to do
more, and I would like to see us move from what is a good start with 10,000 to
65,000 and begin immediately to put into place the mechanisms for vetting the
people that we would take in,” stated Clinton.
29. “Hundreds Of Immigrants And Their Children Have
Been Recently Charged With Terrorism”
Trump cites a Fox News report that revealed
Congressional data suggests hundreds of terror plans in the U.S. were stopped
since September 11, 2001, and “at least 380 were foreign-born.”
30. “Clinton Policy Is Motivated By 1,000 Foreign
Donations That Weren’t Disclosed With The State Department”
Trump points to a 2015 report by Ken Silverstein in
Harper’s Magazine which notes, “The Clinton Foundation is a professionally
structured money-laundering operation.”
31. “Bill Clinton Was Paid $750,000 From A Telecom
Company Facing State Department Sanctions While Hillary Was Secretary of State,
And Was Subsequently Spared”
The Trump campaign cites the book Clinton Cash,
detailing the Swedish Telecom Giant Ericsson that came under pressure from the
United States for selling equipment to oppressive governments that would
allegedly use the equipment to control their people.
32. “Clinton’s State Department Approved The
Transfer of 20% Of America’s Uranium Holdings To Russia, While Investors
Funneled $145 Million To The Clinton Foundation”
Trump again references Clinton Cash, which reveals
a connection between the United State’s uranium holdings with Russia’s Uranium
One to $145 million in donations to the Clinton Foundation.
33. “Hillary Clinton Appointed A Top Donor To A
Sensitive National Security Board, Despite His Having No Credentials”
Trump argues that Rajiv Fernando, who donated
between $1 million and $5 million to the Clinton Foundation, was appointed by
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to the International Security Board although
he didn’t have international security credentials, according to ABC News. The
Washington Examiner reported that the State Department under Clinton’s watch
then rushed top secret security clearance for Fernando.
34. “Clinton Accepted Gifts From The Government Of
Brunei As Secretary Of State As Brunei Pushed Sharia Law”
“Hillary Clinton accepted $58,000 in jewelry from
the government of Brunei when she was Secretary of State – plus millions more
for her foundation. The Sultan of Brunei has pushed oppressive Sharia law,
including the punishment of death by stoning for being gay. The government of
Brunei also stands to be one of the biggest beneficiaries of Hillary’s
Trans-Pacific Partnership, which she would absolutely approve if given the
chance,” Trump alleged in his speech, citing donations to the Clinton
Foundation and investigative reports from The Washington Free Beacon.
35. “Hillary Took $25 Million From Saudi Araba,
Where Being LGBT Is Punishable By Death”
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia donated more than $10
million dollars to the Clinton Foundation. Homosexuals are legally stoned to
death in Saudi Arabia and women in Saudi Arabia are violently discriminated
against.
36. “Hillary Took Millions From Kuwait, Qatar,
Oman, And Other Countries That Abuse Women And The LGBT Community”
Trump argues that the State of Kuwait, which was
cited by the State Department in 2012 for Human Rights problems, donated at
least $5 million to the Clinton Foundation.
Both Oman and Qatar, which were also noted by the
State Department for Human Rights practices against women, donated at least $1
million to the Clinton Foundation.
37. “Clinton Illegally Used A Private Email Server
While At The State Department”
Trump cites 2005 State Department regulations that
prohibited the use of a private, personal email server for government business
to support his allegation that Clinton’s conduct as Secretary of State where
she used a private email server was illegal.
38. “Clinton’s Emails Were Easily Hacked By Foreign
Governments”
In this allegation, Trump cites an Associated Press
report titled, “Clinton Server’s Software Had Hacking Risk,” which notes, “Two
such hacking ‘scans’ occurred in 2012 from a Serbian computer looking for
accessible doors or ‘ports’ into the server.”
Fox News has reported about a Romanian hacker who
claims he hacked Clinton.
39. “Clinton Deleted 33,000 Emails”
Trump cites Judicial Watch’s Tom Fitton, who in an
interview with The Hill, said, “She didn’t want to be held accountable for her
conduct in office.” The Hill reported, “Fitton told The Hill that he expects
the government will eventually review the approximately 30,000 emails that
Clinton claimed to have deleted from her server because they were personal in
nature.”
40.”Clinton’s Private Emails Could Be Used as A
Blackmail File for Foreign Governments”
In this assertion, Trump cites Forbes’ Paul
Roderick Gregory, who reported in 2016 the Russian Intelligence Community
supposedly knew about Clinton’s private server since 2013.
41. “Clinton Will Pursue An Open Borders Policy”
Trump points to Clinton’s own immigration plan on
her website as well as a Vanity Fair article noting, “In short, under Clinton’s
policy, if you manage to sneak across the border illegally and make it into a
city, you won’t be removed. You could call that open borders, except it’s
messier. It’s more like a free-for-all.”
42. “Minorities Will Be Hurt Most From Clinton’s
Policies”
Trump argues Clinton’s plan to resettle foreign
refugees into the U.S. will cost billions of dollars and that increased
immigration will hurt American workers’ wages. He also notes the Bureau of
Labor Statistics’ data that shows a record high unemployment rate for both
African Americans and Hispanics.
43. “Sergeant Mendoza Brendam Died Because Of The
Immigration Policies Supported By Hillary Clinton”
Trump argues that open border policies, which
Clinton supports, result in crimes such as the murder of Sergeant Mendoza
Brendam by an illegal immigrant who had previously been charged with other
crimes in Colorado, but was never deported.
44. “For The Amount Of Money Hillary Clinton Wants
To Spend On Refugees, We Could Rebuild Every Inner-City In America”
Trump, citing a Breitbart News article, says the
cost of resettling 10,000 refugees is $6.5 billion dollars, which brings
Clinton’s plans into the hundreds of billions, when taking into account
lifetime benefits.
45. “Clinton’s Immigration Agenda Will Keep Them
Poor, Unemployed Americans Out Of Work, And Hurt Minorities”
Trump cites the Center for Immigration Studies,
which reports immigration lowers American workers’ wages by roughly $400
billion.
46. “Clinton Will Appoint Judges Who Will Abolish
The 2nd Amendment”
Trump challenges that if elected president, Clinton
will appoint liberal activist judges who would support gun control measures. He
cites her previous statement that Australia’s gun ban program was “worth
considering” in America.
47. “ObamaCare Is A Job-Killing Disaster”
On this assertion, Trump cites a Joint Committee on
Taxation report and the Congressional Budget Office noting that the Affordable
Care Act implements $859.7 billion in taxes on small businesses and innovation,
as well as investments.
48. “Real Wages Haven’t Increased For America
Workers”
Trump argues that when considering inflation, a
2014 Pew Research Center Analysis showed, “Today’s Average Hourly Wage Has Just
About The Same Purchasing Power As It Did In 1979.”
49. “Clinton’s Regime of Taxation, Regulation, And
Open Borders, Will Destroy Jobs And Drive Down Wages”
Trump argues that several reviews of Clinton’s tax
plan by the Tax Foundation, a tax policy and research organization, suggest her
plan would lower the size of the economy and drive down income. He also argues
that according to the Center for Immigration Studies, illegal immigration
lowers American workers’ wages by at least $99 billion each year.
